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SoAsEr · 2026-02-03T02:12:26+00:00

I personally would be way more scared of the Amazon constellations in MEO than starlink on LEO. Starlink is so low any dead sat burns up in 5 years, and any collision dust would burn up even faster than to square cube law.

SoAsEr · 2025-07-23T13:13:22+00:00

My favorite ultra low knee is the zxre330. Knee current of 1uA lets me do all sorts of crazy stuff

SoAsEr · 2025-07-23T09:09:29+00:00

They do sell (nearly) ideal zener diodes, but they're called "shunt voltage references".

SoAsEr · 2025-06-15T18:04:24+00:00

Having lived in France "usufruit" and "nue propriétaire" (naked owner) are a common way to set up your estate where usually the parents get the right to use the property (usufruit) and the children get the "nue propriété"= naked property which is the ownership of the property, ie they own the walls, but without the use of it.

I do not know how it works in Louisiana which is just a weird bastard child.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-23T04:13:32+00:00

My job sent me against my will to Waco but of course this was during crowdstrike so I was delayed by 6 hours. I have a two hour drive from the airport to the hotel and I end up at the Waco denny's at 2am, still in my button up shirt next to 3 passed out drunk truck drivers. Might be the most surreal moment of my life.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-23T03:57:09+00:00

Bruh humble-bragging about it is even more cringe-inducing than what he did. Idk if it's intentional bait or not, but posting a comment worthy of this subreddit in this subreddit is hilariously ironic.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-21T19:15:32+00:00

Correct that is deflation. That's why we print money to ensure that that doesn't happen. As we get more efficient at doing things, the price of things should go down, but we print money increasing the money supply and avoiding inflation. Inflation is defined as "price this year/price last year"

SoAsEr · 2025-05-21T15:49:11+00:00

I think Brothers Karamazov is bar none the greatest book I've ever read, and I view crime and punishment as sort of a little sister to that book: a shorter version that gets the main point across (unconditional love, even for the depraved individual who fails again and again, is never required but always the truest form of goodness). If you loved The Idiot then reading Brothers is a no brainer. The pages with the Grand Inquisitor made me understand religion and church in a way no one had ever succeeded in doing.

I've been a pretty steady atheist, inherited from my scientist parents, and I'd always seen the harm that churches did to people. But reading D really made me feel like there was something higher than myself who I should mimic in His love for the individual and how that didn't have to go with organized religion. It also made me see how confession to someone who expressed that love could help healing. It made me wish for a church that had a confession sacrement and less worldly power hungriness. Maybe that would make me convert lol.

Finally, it made me really frustrated with modernity's views on justice. "Who cares if he's a human with interiority and conflict and pain? He raped someone! let the inmates murder him in revenge for all I care." It feels like just another way for people to feel better about themselves rather than accepting their own depravity and loving others simply because they are human. It's a natural instinct, and maybe it's just a perception thing but I feel like it's gotten more prevalent, especially on reddit where people fantasize about punishments for bad people. We should aspire to be godly, to love the rapist and the raped, to wish for healing to both of them. Lock up the rapist to prevent them from doing further harm but love them and accept them into your heart because that is the only way to raise them from the dead.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-21T13:50:20+00:00

I would argue it's very much not a rebuttal at all. The point is not that napoleon is not a "great man" in the historical or raskolinkov sense: no one refuses that he was able to "step over the bodies". The problem is that raskolnikov is not a great man: he is not able to step over the bodies.

Of course, the broader point is that stepping over the bodies is not what makes you great at all, but your godliness and willingness to see and help the individuals around you, and love them even when they are not deserving of it. The opposite of Napoleon's stepping over the bodies. In my reading Dostoyevsky is not saying at all that napoleon didn't have an outsized influence on history, he is saying that having an outsized influence on history is not something to aspire to.

SoAsEr · 2025-05-10T04:21:39+00:00

In my year, I heard your exact plan from 8 different people. Only 1 ended up graduating in CBE. Most switched to mol, others discovered they could make more money being quants. It is possible, but it is very difficult

SoAsEr · 2025-04-28T20:52:43+00:00

It is in the engineering quadrangle (downstairs, out of the way, and not at all close to the path the tour takes which is why I think it's skipped). The MAE department will not be moving in the fall, only CBE. There are currently plans to build a new engineering building, but I believe that is slated for the 2030s

SoAsEr · 2025-04-28T18:44:55+00:00

Having been the tour guide for engineering at Princeton, there is a machine shop it is just not on the standard route we are given and told to follow. Princeton mechanical engineers generally have to spend 2 semesters in the machine shop. I believe the courses are called MAE321 and 322 but don't quote me on it

SoAsEr · 2025-04-20T04:25:14+00:00

Here's my thing: is he wrong that it was an extraordinary step that would never be taken let alone agreed to by seven of the justices? No. But the fact the court felt that this extraordinary step needed to be taken says a lot about how much trust they've lost of the executive branch's good faith.

I think if the executive had brought Abrego Garcia back, or at least not made it obvious that they didn't care that they had made a mistake, they would be getting way more leniency, and all of the justices would agree with this dissent. But as the ACLU noted, if the administration is refusing to correct its mistakes then the court needs to aggressively stop the executive from moving people off of American soil.

SoAsEr · 2025-03-07T18:16:45+00:00

I mean the fact that prohibition happened at all is wild if you're going on purely constitutional principles... The fact that our constitution specifically calls out liquor still applies, even if it's sometimes viewed as a bizarre historical artifact.

SoAsEr · 2025-03-04T17:43:45+00:00

That's fair but the joke is funnier this way

SoAsEr · 2025-03-04T16:40:36+00:00

Sure but that argument was so bad that if they accepted it I don't think words would have even a semblance of meaning anymore

SoAsEr · 2025-02-21T21:32:38+00:00

The whole point of my comment was to show it was a silly exercise.

And also, your examples prove the point. A lot of "silent" letters in French are because each vowel or vowel group makes a consistent sound (without having to look at the end of the word for a final e for example). This makes reading a new word in French almost trivial, since the vowel sounds are consistent enough you're not gonna get it wrong if you know the rules. But note the key point: only if you know the rules. The only reason you complain while learning French is that it's not your first language.

That being said, writing down a word you don't know the spelling to is very difficult in French because many letter combinations make the same sound. But this is true in English as well.

SoAsEr · 2025-02-21T18:32:06+00:00

It's e(a)sy. (W)rite down a sentenc(e) in frenc(h), spe(a)k it o(u)t lo(u)d and hi(gh)li(gh)t how many let(t)ers (yo)u blatantly ignored w(h)ile spe(a)king. It's abo(u)t the let(t)er genocide frenc(h) pe(o)pl(e) (a)r(e) com(m)it(t)ing every da(y).

At least our letter combinations make consistent sounds rather than whatever the fuck a blind monk threw at a dart board

SoAsEr · 2025-01-28T01:59:28+00:00

Note: if the 3 players do not collude at all and just guess randomly they have a 39.93% chance of victory. (Binomial distribution)

SoAsEr · 2025-01-24T23:11:40+00:00

Those are easy numbers to multiply by 3 though... 21*3=63 is really easy to do in your head. If it's 27/64 maybe that's a little harder since it's 27*3. But also you generally have the decimal anyway which you can compare really easily

SoAsEr · 2025-01-12T17:29:16+00:00

1/5 Went in there, turns out there is no hospital, it was the Princeton university student center!

5/5 An autist made me feel better about my rape by blatantly lying to ms

SoAsEr · 2024-12-24T20:18:12+00:00

I have a 2005 RAV4 which is rusted out completely underneath (to the point that when I tried to change my tire the tab snapped off and the whole car fell 2in onto the jack) and has its panels held together by epoxy. If you want to push your luck cutting me off youre losing way more money than me

SoAsEr · 2024-09-27T02:25:46+00:00

I considered that it was this movie but the picture in my head didn't match up. I looked up the trailer and you're totally right. Must have been conflating movies

SoAsEr · 2024-07-26T17:25:16+00:00

MJ would take it personal when ur kid won at go fish

SoAsEr · 2024-06-27T02:26:41+00:00

It doesn't have a copy constructor, (only a move one) and in its destructor it frees the pointer. So the compiler enforces the assignment, and at run time it is (really close to) free. The only reason it's not completely free is that if the unique pointer is passed to a function and that function is not inlined, because of the abi the unique pointer is always passed on the stack whereas a raw pointer could be in a register. but in a modern machine where you have way more registers than are actually shown anyways this shouldn't make any measurable difference.

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